Cruelty In Syrian Prisons

“The community’s blunt outrage over the children’s arrests and mistreatment, the government’s humiliating and violent reactions to their worries and the people’s refusal to be cowed by security forces embolden and helped spread the Syrian opposition.” This notion demonstrates that the killing of the four protestors was only the first of many deaths to occur continuing into an on-going war that has: “…triggered nationwide protests demanding President Assad’s resignation.” Because of this, the Syrian government decided that in order to handle the issue they must crush this nationwide dissent. This in return only allowed the protestors to push harder for a change within the country of Syria, in hopes of it becoming the wonderful country that it was in the years prior to the war. “Syria’s conflict has devolved from peaceful protests against the government in 2011 to a violent insurgency that has drawn in numerous other countries.” “With neither side able to inflict a decisive defeat on the other, the international community long ago concluded that only a political solution could end the conflict in Syria.”

Syria’s civil war is the worst humanitarian crisis of modern time. The “Syrian Civil war Began in March of 2011, between rebel brigades and government force; economy and infrastructure is destroyed” (Library, 2016). “Divisions between secular and religious fighters, and between ethnic groups, continue to complicate the politics of the conflict” (Corps, 2016). Additionally, the Syrian civil war has taken a significant

In May 2011, the Syrian people took to the streets in peaceful demonstration against the Assad regime’s lack of political progress and extreme responses to anti-government graffiti. However, the protests soon became violent. The government tortured, killed, and shot at the protesters. The situation escalated to a civil war, which is still raging on today. Syrians started fleeing Syria and crossing the border into neighboring countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq.

The Syrian people began taking to the streets in hopes of a peaceful protest against the Assad regime. The Syrian government did not like this one bit and responded with excessive force, resulting in the shooting, killing, and torturing of many innocent peaceful protesters. This soon escalated into an all out civil war where the country was divided into three major groups that are occupied by the regime members, islamic extremists, and rebel fighters. The conflict in this area has become so brutal and entangled with foreign help from many countries, that citizens of the affected war zones needed to evacuate their villages to be

Over the past four years, the situation within the Syria has become more and more dangerous. As many as 6.7 million people, have been displaced from their homes within the country alone. Another 4 million have fled the country entirely, in order to get away from the incessant fighting. An estimated 200,000 people have been killed over the course of the war, but the country is so

of Syria have a lot of struggles in their daily life. Some of the people have no home and they can’t do many things because of the bombings that occur.

Syrian Governmental Problems and Refugees: In “For Those Who Remain in Syria, Daily Life is a Nightmare” (2015), Maher Samaan asserts that the Syrian government is creating more chaos for their country than the actual insurgent groups are. Samaan illustrates his view of the Syrian government (they are doing a terrible job of keeping their citizens safe) by citing statistics that illuminate how the governmental air strikes are causing significantly more deaths than the terrorist groups they are supposedly fighting, accomplishing practically nothing aside from killing their own citizens. The examples he gives help to demonstrate the gravity of the situation and provide a sense of reality to his claims.

Syrians have many problems back home and one of them is their government. Syrian government is trying to stop the citizens from protests. “Pro-democracy protests erupted in March 2011 in the southern city of Deraa after the arrest and torture of some teenagers who painted revolutionary slogans on a school wall” (www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east). Protesters then began to take it to the streets and demand that President Assad resigns

The social pressures of a masculine culture that discourages strong emotions other than anger and rage encourages citizens to shut out empathy for the pain of others, both past and present. Women weep over the past, while men look ahead to forge the future. This is quite the significant task, as Western history is filled with the pain of others. This willful amnesia is reckless and enables present and future harm to be inflicted on the other, because we refuse to learn from the lessons of the past and feel guilty about the hundreds of thousands of innocent people we have killed. We can see this in the current Syrian refugee debate. In the late 1930s, Americans were opposed to accepting even a small number of Jewish refugees based on the fear

On March 18, Bashar al-Assad (Syria's dictator) security shot and killed hundreds of demonstrators and capturing hundreds more. They were protesting when this happened because 15 boys were tortured for writing graffiti, in a way as the government saw fit to support of the Arab Spring. After 6 years of war, there is nearly more than half a million dead and 10.9 million fleeing their homes. Revolution has taken place in Syria because the people or colonist of Syria have been revolting against Syria’s government and against their president or dictator Bashar

Talking about the renaissance in class these past couple of weeks has made me remember some of the genealogy that my mom has done on my family. And she was able to trace it all the way back to man sitting in the jail cell with the infamous King Arthur. So I decided to write the essay on the situations of the prisons and torture methods of the renaissance.

The Civil war in Syria is not like typical internal conflicts due to the sheer number of different groups fighting in the same small territory. Primarily, this is a fight for power in the nation of Syria and each group has a special affinity for the land. This has led to a power struggle in the small area, and the people of the nation, whether they are fighting or not, are all suffering in different ways. There are some who have chosen to fight for their cause. They are not the majority, however. Many, half of the country in fact, have been displaced and forced to walk miles, in temperatures estimated more that 120 degrees fahrenheit, from their home country to refugee camps after suffering directly and immensely in their own homes. Not

Syria has always been a country filled with violence, poverty, and instability. From 1946, when it gained its independence from France, there has always been turmoil and political unrest in the country. The Ba’ath Party’s regime began formally in 1966, although similarly minded factions had control since 1947, and it marked the first stable Syrian government. Syria’s ruling political party is made up of members of the Syrian Alawite population, a minority in a predominantly Sunni country. Up until today, the Ba’ath Party has maintained iron-like control over Syria, with the Assad family leading the party and the country since 1970. Hafez al-Assad began his rule in 1970, and his son, current president Bashar al-Assad, took power after his death in 2000. When the younger Assad first came to power, the West was ready for a more moderate Syria to be created, due to the fact that Assad had a western education and at one point was studying to become an eye doctor in London, England. However, western expectations were proved to be extremely wrong, as Assad has most definitely not created a moderate Syria, and arguably he has even made the country more right-wing. He established unilateral control for himself and the Ba’ath Party multiple times by declaring states-of-emergency in Syria, and he has ruled with an even stronger grip than his father. Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, or more accurately the Long Arab Winter, Bashar al-Assad has only tightened his control, and he

Syrian civil war started in 2011 was the outcome of the opposition against the President Bashar al-Assad regime. The uprising emerged as a response to the Arab spring movement that lead to regime change in Tunisia and subsequently turned into mass unrest rooted into the discontent with long-term dictatorship and poor economic situation in the country (Manfreda, n.d.). The number of Syrian citizens killed in the civil war reached 140000 since March 2011 (SBS 2014). The European Commission (2014, 2) reports approximately 9.3 million civilians “in need for humanitarian assistance”. The scale of armed rebellion between government and opposition that lead to an increasing number of casualties among civilians did not remain unnoticed by the

The Syrian Arab Republic is an Arab country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the North, Iraq to the East, Jordan to the South, and Israel to the Southwest. In March 2011, the Syria conflict has begun due to various reasons and is still going on today. This outbreak is one of the key factors which resulted the Arab Spring (Arab Uprising). Arab Spring refers to the democratic uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world in 2011. The protest originated in Tunisia in December 2010 and quickly took hold in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. In these countries, the citizens intiatied the protests as the ruling families have been